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Ahmed Mihoob - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Consumer Side Resource Accounting in the Cloud
2011Co-Authors: Ahmed Mihoob, Carlos Molina–jimenez, Santosh ShrivastavaAbstract:The paper investigates the possibility of consumer side Resource Accounting of cloud services, meaning, whether it is possible for a consumer to independently collect all the Resource usage data required for calculating billing charges for pay-per-use cloud services. The Accounting models of two widely used cloud services are examined and possible sources of difficulties are identified, including causes that could lead to discrepancies between the metering data collected by the consumer and the provider. The investigation is motivated by the fact that cloud service providers perform their own measurements to collect usage data, but as yet there are no equivalent facilities of consumer-trusted metering that are commonly provided by utility service providers like gas and electricity. The paper goes on to suggest how cloud service providers can improve their Accounting models to facilitate the task of consumer side Resource Accounting.
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I3E - Consumer Side Resource Accounting in the Cloud
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2011Co-Authors: Ahmed Mihoob, Carlos Molina-jimenez, Santosh K. ShrivastavaAbstract:Part 2: e-ServicesInternational audienceThe paper investigates the possibility of consumer side Resource Accounting of cloud services, meaning, whether it is possible for a consumer to independently collect all the Resource usage data required for calculating billing charges for pay-per-use cloud services. The Accounting models of two widely used cloud services are examined and possible sources of difficulties are identified, including causes that could lead to discrepancies between the metering data collected by the consumer and the provider. The investigation is motivated by the fact that cloud service providers perform their own measurements to collect usage data, but as yet there are no equivalent facilities of consumer-trusted metering that are commonly provided by utility service providers like gas and electricity. The paper goes on to suggest how cloud service providers can improve their Accounting models to facilitate the task of consumer side Resource Accounting
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a case for consumercentric Resource Accounting models
International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2010Co-Authors: Ahmed Mihoob, Carlos Molinajimenez, S K ShrivastavaAbstract:A pay–per–use cloud service should be made available to consumers with an unambiguous Resource Accounting model that precisely describes all the factors that are taken into account in calculating Resource consumption charges. The paper proposes the notion of consumer–centric Resource Accounting model such that consumers can programmatically compute their consumption charges of a remotely used service. In particular, the notion of strongly consumer–centric Accounting model is proposed that requires that all the data needed for calculating billing charges can be collected independently by the consumer (or a trusted third party, TTP); in effect, this means that a consumer (or a TTP) should be in a position to run their own measurement service. Strongly consumer–centric Accounting models have the desirable property of openness and transparency, since service users are in a position to verify the charges billed to them. To illustrate the ideas, the Accounting model of a given cloud infrastructure service (simple storage service, S3 from Amazon) is evaluated. The exercise reveals some shortcomings which can be fixed as indicated in this paper to make Amazon’s model strongly consumer–centric. Service providers can learn from this evaluation study to re-examine their Accounting models and perform any amendments
Eric Flamholtz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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human Resource Accounting advances in concepts methods and applications
1999Co-Authors: Eric FlamholtzAbstract:The Author. Preface. Introduction: The Development and State of the Art of Human Resource Accounting. Part I: Role of Human Resource Accounting. 1. Uses for Managers and Human Resource Professionals. 2. Uses in Corporate Financial Reporting. Part II: Accounting for Human Resource Costs. 3. Measuring Human Resource Costs: Concepts and Methods. 4. First-Generation Accounting Systems for Human Resource Costs. 5. Second-Generation Accounting Systems for Human Resource Costs. Part III: Accounting for Human Resource Value. 6. Determining Human Resource Value: Concepts and Theory. 7. Monetary Measurement Methods. 8. Nonmonetary Measurement Methods. 9. First-Generation Accounting Systems for Human Resource Value. 10. Second and Third-Generation Accounting Systems for Human Resource Value. Part IV: Applications and Implementations. 11. Designing and Implementing Human Resource Accounting Systems. 12. Applications for Improving Management, Training, and Personnel Decisions. 13. Developing an Integrated Systems. 14. Recent Advancement and Future Directions in Human Resource Accounting. Annotated Bibliography. Notes. Index.
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Designing and Implementing Human Resource Accounting Systems
Human Resource Accounting, 1999Co-Authors: Eric FlamholtzAbstract:This chapter deals with the problem of designing and implementing systems of Accounting for human Resources. It provides guidelines for use in developing human Resource Accounting systems in organizations. This chapter first focuses on the problem of defining the content of a proposed system and then examines the phases in the design and implementation process. It is intended to be used by human Resource professionals working together with Accounting-information specialists to design their organization’s human Resource Accounting system.
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Recent Advancements and Future Directions in Human Resource Accounting
Human Resource Accounting, 1999Co-Authors: Eric FlamholtzAbstract:One Accounting tool that is directly relevant to the measurement and, in turn, the management of human capital is human Resource Accounting. Accordingly, the purpose of this book has been to show how to use the concepts and measurement techniques associated with human Resource Accounting as tools for management and financial reporting purposes. The purpose of this chapter is to describe some additional work that has been accomplished in recent years to develop various aspects of human Resource Accounting, as well as possible future trends in the field.
Pamela J. Jakes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Measuring forest ecosystem sustainability: A Resource Accounting approach
Environmental Management, 1995Co-Authors: Dennis P. Bradley, Pamela J. JakesAbstract:A new environmental paradigm has emerged, reflecting a change in the public's understanding of Resource sustainability. Forest policy makers need to be better informed about such changes to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives in a manner that balances human needs and aspirations with ecosystem constraints. As an aid to this task, a forest Resource Accounting system based on the key concept of natural capital could help reshape forest policies to provide an even wider spectrum of benefits for both present and future generations by maintaining and enhancing the productive capacity of forest capital. Such a Resource Accounting system would provide a tool for integrating multidimensional information requirements in measuring the health of both forest ecosystems and economic systems. This paper outlines some of the features of this Accounting system and proposes and framework that would integrate economic and ecological characteristics of natural Resources. Forest Resource Accounting is urgently needed to achieve the sustainability goals of ecosystem management.
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Natural Resource Accounting for the National Forests: a conceptual framework.
1994Co-Authors: Dennis P. Bradley, Pamela J. JakesAbstract:Summarizes the shortcomings of current natural Resource Accounting systems, outlines some of the features needed, and proposes an Accounting framework that would help integrate economic and ecological factors. Such a system of forest Resource Accounting is urgently needed to achieve the sustainable goals of ecosystem management.
Bhuvan Urgaonkar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Resource Accounting of Shared IT Resources in Multi-Tenant Clouds
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2017Co-Authors: Byung Chul Tak, Youngjin Kwon, Bhuvan UrgaonkarAbstract:In today's IT platforms, the capability to accurately account overall Resource usage among applications is crucial for variety of management actions (e.g., capacity planning, dynamic Resource reallocation and/or load balancing). However, in the environments where small number of shared services cater to a large number of distinct entities' requests, Resource Accounting becomes significantly challenging. First, the overall Resource consumption at the shared service is the aggregate of the Resource consumption for multiple remote entities whose identities are not visible to the shared service. Second, even if such information becomes available, common monitoring tools (e.g., top, iostat) are unable to deliver accurate break-down of Resource consumption since sharing occurs at sub-instance level (i.e., service instances are not exclusive). We study inherent challenges of performing Resource Accounting of shared Resource. We compare two nonintrusive approaches having different balance between local monitoring and collective inference - (i) LR that uses easily-available tools which provide aggregate measurement and applying well-known linear regression as inference, and (ii) Rameter that puts more emphasis on gathering fine-grained per-thread information from within the hypervisor and applying light inference on the data. Evaluation shows that Rameter offers less than 1% error in Accounting whereas LR's error fluctuates between 5-150%.
Dennis P. Bradley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Measuring forest ecosystem sustainability: A Resource Accounting approach
Environmental Management, 1995Co-Authors: Dennis P. Bradley, Pamela J. JakesAbstract:A new environmental paradigm has emerged, reflecting a change in the public's understanding of Resource sustainability. Forest policy makers need to be better informed about such changes to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives in a manner that balances human needs and aspirations with ecosystem constraints. As an aid to this task, a forest Resource Accounting system based on the key concept of natural capital could help reshape forest policies to provide an even wider spectrum of benefits for both present and future generations by maintaining and enhancing the productive capacity of forest capital. Such a Resource Accounting system would provide a tool for integrating multidimensional information requirements in measuring the health of both forest ecosystems and economic systems. This paper outlines some of the features of this Accounting system and proposes and framework that would integrate economic and ecological characteristics of natural Resources. Forest Resource Accounting is urgently needed to achieve the sustainability goals of ecosystem management.
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Natural Resource Accounting for the National Forests: a conceptual framework.
1994Co-Authors: Dennis P. Bradley, Pamela J. JakesAbstract:Summarizes the shortcomings of current natural Resource Accounting systems, outlines some of the features needed, and proposes an Accounting framework that would help integrate economic and ecological factors. Such a system of forest Resource Accounting is urgently needed to achieve the sustainable goals of ecosystem management.